December 21, 2012

Ingraham opened the show with the news that Corporal Jon Hammer who was held in a Mexican jail. She spoke to Bill O'Reilly who championed his cause as well as his mother Olivia Hammer. Hammer is expecte to be home for Christmas. Ingraham also talked to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who advocated for Hammer.

Ingraham spoke about the Congress and the fiscal cliff with Chris Begala and DeeDee Benke about the fiscal cliff gridlock. Ingraham shared info from Capitol Hill that Speaker Boehner may be replaced. She later talked to Dick Harpootlian about President Obama's response to the situation.

Ingraham discussed NRA VP Wayne LaPierre's press conference on Friday about the organization's solution to school violence with Josh Horowitz of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence who said the NRA doesn't need to be involved in this and that school districts should handle this locally. He said our surgeons are better and this is why gun violence is down. Ingraham noted Connecticut has strict gun laws and that not all the facts are known yet.

Ingraham spoke about George Soros bankrolling an effort to legalize drugs with Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance. He said that most Americans want marijuana legalized. Ingraham bought up the horribly addictive drugs such as heroin becoming acceptable.